Capitalism is not the root of the problem.

It runs far deeper. Both Yuval Noah Harari (Sapiens) and Jared Diamond (Guns, Germs and Steel) point this out clearly.

In it, they also show the many tools societies over the centuries developed to manipulate their population: the invention of money (through a banking system), law, property rights, let's not also forget religion (ethics) of which consumerism is but its newest leaf.

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l5fRI-YnG0